What’s your accent

A friend and reader sent me a link to a very cool on-line quiz that places your geographic origin by how you say certain words, i.e., do “pen” and “pin” sound the same or different. I had no idea people said these particular words the same way until I had a particuarly amusing conversation with my wife many years ago.

As I expected, I was classified as being entirely accent free– though the geographic basis of “Midland” does not exactly apply to my Northern Virginia upbringing. But I always felt like the NoVa burbs had an Anytown, USA feel to them.